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The Woman's Bill Of Rights Is, Unhappily, Long Overdue. It Should Have Run Along With The Rights Of Man In The Eighteenth Century. Its Drag As To Time Of Official Proclamation Is A Drag As To Social Vision. And Even If Equal Rights Were Now Written Into The Law Of Our Land, It Would Be So Inadequate Today As A Means To Food, Clothing And Shelter For Woman At Large That What They Would Still Be Enjoying Would Be Equality In Disaster Rather Than In Realistic Privilege.

Despite The Modern Dogma To The Effect That Women Were A Subject Sex Until The Nineteenth Century 'emancipated' Them From History, Women In History Had Demonstrated Strong Wills And Purposes, Had Made Assertions, And Had Directed Or Influenced All Human Destiny, Including Their Own, Since Human Life Began.

Action Without Study Fatal. Study Without Action Is Futile.

While It Is Generally Agreed That The Visible Expressions And Agencies Are Necessary Instruments, Civilization Seems To Depend Far More Fundamentally Upon The Moral And Intellectual Qualities Of Human Beings-upon The Spirit That Animates Mankind.

Every Great Creative Idea, Formulated As A Philosophy, Has A Social Setting - In Time, In A Geographical Location, In A Political Economy, In A Matrix Of Interests And Knowledge. It Is Not A Free-swinging Phenomenon Like A Balloon Without Moorings. It Is Not Produced In A Vacuum And, Being Creative, It Does Not Work In A Vacuum. Nurtured On Things Experienced And Things Known, It Reaches Out Toward The Unknown Like A Flower On A Stalk Growing Out Of The Soil.